Training - Barefoot vs shoes
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:46 pm
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm a barefoot guy, and I'm pretty minimal when it comes to shoes in the first place. I basically only wear shoes when I need to. Even then, I only wear vibrams or Feiyue. When I train, I started with Tea Kwon Do a long time ago, so training barefoot stuck with me. My teacher basically said he wears shoes because it's traditional. Which, kind of makes sense. I was thinking about it from biological standpoint. If we train barefoot, you're training muscles that don't often get trained or worked. You're also possibly preventing injury. On article I read said that basketball players often wear high top shoes now, that have some ankle support. Though that sense this change, the amount of ankle injuries have actually grown. The article basically stated that high top shoes vs low top shoes cause development around the ankle to happen less, making the ankle weaker and more prone to injury.
I've been thinking that training the feet is more productive. Training the muscles in the feet, the ankles, etc. We aren't generally barefoot out of training, though most shoes are light enough to not make that big of a difference. What do you guys think? What do you train in, and why?
I've been thinking that training the feet is more productive. Training the muscles in the feet, the ankles, etc. We aren't generally barefoot out of training, though most shoes are light enough to not make that big of a difference. What do you guys think? What do you train in, and why?